Lol, India playing Windies and Australia at Barbados, which has proven to be full of pace and bounce. Last time when we encountered Aus on such a pitch, we recorded the lowest total in t20. Will be fun to see how young superstar Raina plays there.

Hope we'll play Rohit Sharma instead of Useless Pathan, who cannot play a delivery above his waist.

If they bowl with discipline, they will can restrict Aus to reasonable total like Ban showed today. More than bowling it's batting am worried about. None of our guys barring Dhoni and to some extent Gambir and Rohit can play the pull shot to save their lives.

Rough group. Ind, SL and Aus are equally matched and WI have the home advantage. The key for every team against Australia is going to be to keep Clarke batting as long as possible. IND, SL and WI should make sure that their fielders drop his catches and not get him runout.

Originally Posted by Sir Alex

None of our guys barring Dhoni and to some extent Gambir and Rohit can play the pull shot to save their lives.

From what I've seen Ind has done pretty well in major tournaments on the hard bouncy wickets of South Africa. Barbados pitch is no way near as bouncy as the ones during the world cups in SA.

Rough group. Ind, SL and Aus are equally matched and WI have the home advantage. The key for every team against Australia is going to be to keep Clarke batting as long as possible. IND, SL and WI should make sure that their fielders drop his catches and not get him runout.

From what I've seen Ind has done pretty well in major tournaments on the hard bouncy wickets of South Africa. Barbados pitch is no way near as bouncy as the ones during the world cups in SA.

Yeah, but that was a different team. Had Sachin, Dravid, Sehwag, Ganguly etc.

I hope Melbourne 08 doesn't repeat, but sadly don't see why it couldn't. Given there is no Sehwag.

Lol, India playing Windies and Australia at Barbados, which has proven to be full of pace and bounce. Last time when we encountered Aus on such a pitch, we recorded the lowest total in t20. Will be fun to see how young superstar Raina plays there.

Hope we'll play Rohit Sharma instead of Useless Pathan, who cannot play a delivery above his waist.

If they bowl with discipline, they will can restrict Aus to reasonable total like Ban showed today. More than bowling it's batting am worried about. None of our guys barring Dhoni and to some extent Gambir and Rohit can play the pull shot to save their lives.

Rohit is pretty woeful with the pull shot tbh.

And yeah Australia to walk this group en route to winning the trophy. India to suck big time.

We miss you, Fardin. :(. RIP.

Originally Posted by vic_orthdox

In the end, I think it's so utterly, incomprehensibly boring. There is so much context behind each innings of cricket that dissecting statistics into these small samples is just worthless. No-one has ever been faced with the same situation in which they come out to bat as someone else. Ever.